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Floriculture

The Floriculture industry provides valuable employment in East Africa and beyond, but also exists in a unique environment for living wage. With very specific conditions necessary for growing flowers for export, the non-metropolitan urban communities that form near lakes and airports to support the floriculture industry present challenges for living wage payment, as they often lack some of the more established infrastructure that exists in established communities.

Confronting this challenge and moving forward on living wage issues across the floriculture industry are a number of important organisations that are working with the Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) living wage estimates in Ethiopia and Kenya. GLWC members, and in particular, FairTrade International, have been working in close collaboration with organisations such as the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), Hivos, True Price, and FSI2020, to create pathways to attain a living wage for workers in the East African floriculture context.

Related Benchmarks

Living Wage for Rural Uganda

Lake Victoria Basin
UGX770,998
Ugandan Shillings per Month
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Living Wage for Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Non-Metropolitan Urban Kenya
KSh 32,488
Kenyan Shilling per Month
VIEW

Living Wage for Ziway Region, Ethiopia

Non-Metropolitan Urban Ethiopia
ብር10,607
Ethiopian Birr per Month
VIEW

Partners

Work in Floriculture wouldn't be possible without the support of our partners:

Related Resources

  • External Resource

    In Work but Trapped in Poverty

    Country: Malawi, Vietnam, Kenya
    Industry: Floriculture, Garment / Textile, Tea, Manufacturing
  • External Resource

    Towards a Living Wage

    Country: Ethiopia, Kenya
    Industry: Floriculture
  • External Resource

    Floriculture Sustainability Initiative Key Topic Paper: Living Wage

    Country: Ethiopia, Kenya
    Industry: Floriculture
  • External Resource

    Attaining living wages in international supply chains Living wages in the cut-flower sector in East-Africa

    Country: Kenya
    Industry: Floriculture
  • Case Study

    East Africa Flower Industry

    Country: Ethiopia, Kenya
    Industry: Floriculture
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